Drei psychoaktive Pflanzen – Kaffee, Schlafmohn und Peyote-Kaktus –, die uns beleben, beruhigen oder unser Bewusstsein verändern, erkundet Michael Pollan in diesem spannenden Buch: ihre Kultur, ihre Wirkung und die Tabus, mit denen sie behaftet sind.
This volume spotlights the unique problems that often accompany a high-income lifestyle and offers guidelines that can help individuals avoid the pitfalls wealth may bring.
Youth tourists are often defined as money poor and time rich but there are significant differences in social status, interests, and consumption behaviour within the various segments of this sector.
En este libro se presenta el estudio empirico sobre el comportamiento espacial de compra de los consumidores de los principales centros comerciales ubicados en la ciudad de Santiago de Cali, Colombia.
El Centro de Etica y Responsabilidad Social (CERS) y la Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales de la Universidad del Pacifico proponen una reflexion critica, desde las distintas perspectivas y disciplinas del saber, sobre la relacion entre la industria de alimentos y los cambios en la salud y el bienestar de la poblacion.
Bis heute muss der griechische Gott Dionysos herhalten, wenn von ihnen die Rede ist: Ekstasen sind wild, ihnen wohnt eine Energie inne, die fühlen kann, wer gerade entrückt ist, die aber nur allzu schwer in Worte zu fassen ist.
Demnächst wird die Erde acht Milliarden Menschen beherbergen – in Anbetracht von begrenzten Ressourcen, Klimawandelund Umweltzerstörung ein Grund zur Sorge.
Für alle, die nicht damit rechnen dürfen, ein neues Wundermedikament zu entdecken oder als Held_in in die Geschichte einzugehen, verheißt Elternschaft den vermeintlich nachhaltigsten Weg, sich der Weltgeschichte einzuschreiben.
Für alle, die nicht damit rechnen dürfen, ein neues Wundermedikament zu entdecken oder als Held_in in die Geschichte einzugehen, verheißt Elternschaft den vermeintlich nachhaltigsten Weg, sich der Weltgeschichte einzuschreiben.
Youth tourists are often defined as money poor and time rich but there are significant differences in social status, interests, and consumption behaviour within the various segments of this sector.
Das Buch stellt eine Gruppe von Menschen vor, die etwas anders machen als der Rest der Gesellschaft: Sie teilen ihr Geld, obwohl sie weder in derselben Stadt leben, noch durch familiäre Bande zusammengehalten werden.
The Routledge Handbook of Global Islam and Consumer Culture is an outstanding inter- and transdisciplinary reference source to key topics, problems, and debates in this challenging research field.
People hunting monkeys in the jungle once devised a simple yet effective trap: When the creature found a banana in a large jar with a narrow neck, it would plunge its paw in to retrieve it.
Once conduits to new music, frequently bypassing the corporate music industry in ways now done more easily via the Internet, record stores championed the most local of economic enterprises, allowing social mobility to well up from them in unexpected ways.
Once conduits to new music, frequently bypassing the corporate music industry in ways now done more easily via the Internet, record stores championed the most local of economic enterprises, allowing social mobility to well up from them in unexpected ways.
In the age of Ikea Hackers and salvagepunks, this book charts the emergence of "e;rugged consumers"e; who creatively misuse, reuse, and repurpose the objects within their environments to suit their idiosyncratic needs and desires.
In this impressively researched, alarming book, Rosaleen Duffy investigates the world of nature conservation, arguing that the West’s attitude to endangered wildlife is shallow, self-contradictory, and ultimately very damaging.
Cosmopolitans are individuals with a distinctive kind of extended national and international orientation, a global vision, and sense of belonging to the world.
The chapters in this volume have been selected from the best papers presented at the 8th Annual Consumer Culture Theory Conference held at the home of University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ in June 2013.
"e;Luxury Fashion and Culture"e; focuses on the study of how humans use high quality, highly pleasurable, and frequently rare products, services, and experiences to distinguish to themselves and others who they are as well as whom they are not - both within and across cultures.
The chapters in this volume are selected from the best papers presented at the 11th Annual Consumer Culture Theory Conference held in Lille, France in July 2016.
Balancing psychological, conceptual and historical analyses with examples drawn from popular culture and mass media, Rami Gabriel traces the ways in which beliefs about the self - including dualism, individualism, and expressivism - influence consumer behaviour.
This book aims to provide comprehensive empirical and theoretical studies of expanding fandom communities in East Asia through the commodification of Japanese, Korean and Chinese popular cultures in the digital era.
Seit mehr als drei Jahren wird die Menschheit weltweit durch politische Maßnahmen, vornehmlich in den Industriestaaten in Angst und Schrecken versetzt.
A fascinating exploration of how algorithms penetrate the most intimate aspects of our psychologyfrom the pioneering expert on psychological targeting.
